Bandelier National Monument is close to Los Alamos, New Mexico. Yet, it belongs with the national parks that trail through the corridor of New Mexico and Colorado. This corridor was populated ages ago by the Ancients. Mysteriously, they disappeared and left no record of why. But, you can still see their construction work at places […]
Enjoy this video of San Francisco’s Chinatown in its annual Lunar New Year’s celebratory spirit. Calendar year 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit. Have a fun and fortunate new year!
Happy New Year, and happy new landscape. The volcano Kilauea is busy creating new land from molten earth-core. As the lava lake within Kilauea’s caldera rises safely without spilling outside the rim, it is truly a good time for volcanists of all ages to visit. If you like to let off a little steam while […]
Happy Boxing Day, Happy Holidays, and happy end-of-calendar year 2022 to you! If you are planning any visits to the National Parks in 2023, put this park on your short list. It has epic, historic buildings and trails (the Appalachian Trail,) green landscapes, streams, rivers, fall color, and, of course, “smoky” mountains. Check it out!
Water is here. Water is there. Water is everywhere! Water is Everglades National Park. Celebrating it’s 75th birthday in 2022, Everglades remains one of the most vital and unique of the National Park Service of the United States, and a UNESCO site.. Receiving 60 inches of rainfall a year, (or twice the amount of the […]
Someone once said “It’s the journey, not the destination.” Getting to Great Basin National Park in Nevada, USA, is half the fun. It is likely you will travel there on U.S. Highway 50, the “Lincoln Highway,” also known as the “Loneliest Road in America.” You will see small-town museums at their finest, centuries-old courthouses, and […]
Happy Halloween everybody!
Imagine, if you will, how the plains and prairies of Midwest America used to appear before the eyes of the beholders, had they been farmers, traders, or frontiers people of any ilk who came upon these lands. This diverse ecosystem, both flora and fauna, stretched out in all directions and covered nearly one-third of North […]
October 21, 2022, marks the 23rd birthday of this National Park in Colorado. That means Black Canyon of the Gunnison is one of the youngest American National Park landmarks, but geologically, its appearance is one of the oldest. Rock formations in the steep cliff walls at this Park go back billions of years. Similar to […]